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Bulgarian Dirty Bombs

Bulgarian Dirty Bombs

Episode number: 1

Overview: Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.

The Gun Markets of Pakistan

The Gun Markets of Pakistan

Episode number: 2

Overview: VICE visits the arms markets of Darra, Pakistan, where the area's holy warriors come to stock up on guns handmade by men who live in caves.

PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut

PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut

Episode number: 3

Overview: These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.

A Day in Shanghai

A Day in Shanghai

Episode number: 4

Overview: Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.

The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl

The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl

Episode number: 5

Overview: Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.

Filipino Feed Lot

Filipino Feed Lot

Episode number: 6

Overview: Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.

Gypsies of Sophia

Gypsies of Sophia

Episode number: 7

Overview: VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.

The Last Aryans of Paraguay

The Last Aryans of Paraguay

Episode number: 8

Overview: South America’s lost Aryan colony.

The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine

Episode number: 9
Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival

Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival

Episode number: 10

Overview: Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.

Nimbin Mardi Grass

Nimbin Mardi Grass

Episode number: 11
The VICE Guide to North Korea

The VICE Guide to North Korea

Episode number: 12

Overview: VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.

Gorillas in the Midst

Gorillas in the Midst

Episode number: 13

Overview: VBS travels to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the endangered mountain gorillas - 200 of the Earth's last 720 — are in a desperate fight for their survival.

Wodka Wars

Wodka Wars

Episode number: 14

Overview: Vice Scandinavia correspondent Ivar Berglin travels to the front lines of the Vodka/Wodka Wars - and discovers that the tortured history of Russian-Polish relations can be saved in a bottle.

Mecca Diaries

Mecca Diaries

Episode number: 15

Overview: Last year Suroosh Alvi, VICE Founder, went with his family to Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The world’s largest annual pilgrimage. He shot this footage with an old Handicam.

The VICE Guide to Liberia

The VICE Guide to Liberia

Episode number: 16

Overview: Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.

House of The Setting Sun

House of The Setting Sun

Episode number: 17

Overview: VICE travels to Casa Xochiquetzal, a residential facility in one of Mexico City's shadiest neighborhoods that caters exclusively to the area's elderly sex workers.

Illegal Border Crossing Park

Illegal Border Crossing Park

Episode number: 18

Overview: In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.

Last Dinosaur of the Congo

Last Dinosaur of the Congo

Episode number: 19

Overview: Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle

Prostitutes of God

Prostitutes of God

Episode number: 20

Overview: VICE travels to the Indian city of Sangli to meet a group of bolshy sex workers selling their bodies in the name of the Hindu Goddess Yellamm.

Mongolian Yak Festival

Mongolian Yak Festival

Episode number: 21

Overview: VBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.

Libyan Lockdown

Libyan Lockdown

Episode number: 22

Overview: Libya is the latest nation to experience the violent civil unrest that has plagued North Africa since December. But in August 2010 things were much different.

The Holy Thugs of Venezuela

The Holy Thugs of Venezuela

Episode number: 23

Overview: The Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and guns.

New Years Eve in Kabul

New Years Eve in Kabul

Episode number: 24

Overview: VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, accompanied by photographer Ariana Delawari. Together they witness the vicious impact left by the Taliban regime.

Jesus of Siberia

Jesus of Siberia

Episode number: 25

Overview: Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.

The VICE Guide to the Balkans

The VICE Guide to the Balkans

Episode number: 26

Overview: To commemorate 12 years without a major attempted genocide in the Balkans, we decided to rent a Yugo and take a road trip through the remnants of old Yugoslavia.

The Warias

The Warias

Episode number: 27

Overview: Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.

Takanakuy

Takanakuy

Episode number: 28

Overview: Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.

The VICE Guide to Karachi

The VICE Guide to Karachi

Episode number: 29

Overview: VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.

The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha

The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha

Episode number: 30

Overview: We tried to find the best shawarma in Doha but ended up searching for robot camel jockeys (apparently this is a real thing) and drinking in very strange bars.

Blood Sacrifice in Sumba

Blood Sacrifice in Sumba

Episode number: 31

Overview: Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.

Human Safari

Human Safari

Episode number: 32

Overview: Tourists on India's Andaman Islands are taken by the busload to watch the Jarawa tribe go about their daily lives. The Jarawa are treated like animals in a safari park, with large signs urging visitors not to feed them or give them clothing.

North Korean Motorcycle Diaries

North Korean Motorcycle Diaries

Episode number: 33

Overview: Last August, motorcyclists Joanne and Gareth Morgan embarked on their most ambitious journey yet: riding the Baekdudaegan, a mountain range that stretches the length of North and South Korea’s shared peninsula.

The Japanese Love Industry

The Japanese Love Industry

Episode number: 34

Overview: In these difficult times, many Japanese are putting marriage and families on the back burner and seeking recreational love and affection as a cheap escape. We sent Ryan Duffy to investigate Tokyo's cuddle cafes and Yakuza-sponsored prostitution.

Miss Camel Beauty Contest

Miss Camel Beauty Contest

Episode number: 35

Overview: The desert may be one of the last places on Earth you'd expect to find a beauty pageant. But on Christmas Day, while you were busy testing the limits of your digestive system, VICE's Charlet Duboc was traipsing through sand dunes in Abu Dhabi's remote Western Region, all in the name of beauty.

Kingdom of the Little People

Kingdom of the Little People

Episode number: 36

Overview: In a land far, far away, love flourishes in a kingdom quite unlike any other. In mushroom-shaped homes and old dormitories, a community of dwarfs—all less than 51 inches tall—can be found singing, dancing, and performing on a daily basis for visiting tourists. In this episode of The VICE Guide to Travel, we send VICE magazine's creative director, Annette Lamothe-Ramos, to visit the controversial theme park, Kingdom of the Little People.